CACFP

USDA's Child and Adult Care Food Program plays a vital role in improving the quality of daycare and making it more affordable for many low-income families. Each day, 2.6 million children receive nutritious meals and snacks through CACFP. The program also provides meals and snacks to 74,000 adults who receive care in nonresidential adult daycare centers. CACFP reaches even further to provide meals to children residing in homeless shelters, and snacks and suppers to youths participating in eligible afterschool care programs. Current Participating Sponsors

 

CACFP Participation among Child Care Programs in Nevada

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Child and Adult Care Food Program Information

  • What is CACFP?
CACFP is the Child and Adult Care Food Program, a federal program that supports or provides funding for healthy meals and snacks served to children and adults receiving daycare. It plays a vital role in improving the quality of daycare and making it more affordable for many low-income families.

CACFP reimburses participating centers and daycare homes for their meal costs. It is administered at the Federal level by the Food and Nutrition Service (FNS), an agency of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and the Nevada State Department of Agriculture, Division of Food and Nutrition. Independent centers and sponsoring organizations enter into agreements with the State Agency to operate the program.

  • What types of facilities provide CACFP benefits?

    • Childcare Centers

    • Family Daycare Homes

    • Afterschool Care Programs

    • Homeless Shelters

    • Adult Daycare Centers

     

  • Who gets CACFP meals and snacks?

Children aged 12 and younger are eligible to receive up to two meals and one snack, each day, at a daycare home or center, through CACFP. Children under the age of 18 who reside in homeless shelters may receive up to three reimbursable meals each day. Migrant children under the age of 5 and persons with disabilities, regardless of their age, are also eligible for CACFP. Afterschool care snacks are available to children through through the age of 18.

Adult participants must be functionally impaired or aged 60 or older, and enrolled in an adult care center where they may receive up to two meals and one snack, each day, through CACFP.

For information regarding CACFP, please contact Food and Nutrition staff at 702-956-0027.

 

Nondiscrimination Statement 

In accordance with federal civil rights law and U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) civil rights regulations and policies, this institution is prohibited from discriminating on the basis of race, color, national origin, sex (including gender identity and sexual orientation), disability, age, or reprisal or retaliation for prior civil rights activity.

Program information may be made available in languages other than English. Persons with disabilities who require alternative means of communication to obtain program information (e.g., Braille, large print, audiotape, American Sign Language), should contact the responsible state or local agency that administers the program or USDA’s TARGET Center at (202) 720-2600 (voice and TTY) or contact USDA through the Federal Relay Service at (800) 877-8339.

To file a program discrimination complaint, a Complainant should complete a Form AD-3027, USDA Program Discrimination Complaint Form which can be obtained online at: https://www.usda.gov/sites/default/files/documents/ad-3027.pdf, from any USDA office, by calling (866) 632-9992, or by writing a letter addressed to USDA. The letter must contain the complainant’s name, address, telephone number, and a written description of the alleged discriminatory action in sufficient detail to inform the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights (ASCR) about the nature and date of an alleged civil rights violation. The completed AD-3027 form or letter must be submitted to USDA by:

1. mail: 

U.S. Department of Agriculture 

Office of the Assistant Secretary for Civil Rights 

1400 Independence Avenue, SW 

Washington, D.C. 20250-9410; or 

 

2. fax:

(833) 256-1665 or (202) 690-7442; or 

 

3. email: 

program.intake@usda.gov 

 

This institution is an equal opportunity provider.